Sandra Kohler is the author of The Ceremonies of Longing and The Country of Women, and the recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Born in New York City, she received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College and her master's and doctoral degrees from Bryn Mawr College. Ms. Kohler has taught literature and writing courses at levels ranging from elementary school to university and adult education.
Sandra Kohler’s The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the AWP Award Series in Poetry, was published in 2003 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. A first collection, The Country of Women, was published by Calyx in 1995. Ms. Kohler's poems have appeared in various literary magazines, including The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Gettysburg Review, The Colorado Review, and The Southern Review, over the past thirty years.
Sandra Kohler lives and writes in Selinsgrove, PA, a small town on the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, with her husband.